Some pretty
reasonable commentary here on Abbott's national security speech yesterday. This paragraph puts terrorism numbers in perspective:
Let's focus on the 'abroad' part of the claim. According to the Global Terrorism Index,
'17,958 people were killed in terrorist attacks last year, that’s 61%
more than the previous year.' Which is horrific, of course, but 82% of
those deaths occurred in just five countries: Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria. As you can see in the graph, deaths from
terrorism in the rest of the world have been pretty stable since the
peak in 2001:
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